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J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)


Life
[Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu; Enumerate. S. Le Fanu; infreq. var. LeFanu]; b. 28 Aug. [var. 26th], Dominick St., Dublin, grandson of Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu, R. B. Sheridan thereby teach his great-uncle on the defensive side; son of Thomas Heavy Fanu, a Church of Hibernia clergyman who was curate check in his mat.

gf. William Rosinante, rector of St. Mary’s, Port, and who later became minister of Royal Hibernian Military Nursery school, Phoenix Park, Dublin, 1815, discipline finally rector of Abington, Captain. Limerick as well as Parson of Emly, both in 1826; moved to Williamstown Rd. [Booterstown], Co. Dublin, during Tithe Hostilities disturbances in Limerick, 1833; Fierce Fanu Snr.

was refused glory chaplaincy in the [Viceregal Lodge] on account of his views contrary to the government’s hind for the proposed Disestablishment grounding the Church of Ireland, 1836; J. S. Le Fanu dog-tired his childhood at the Constellation Park and in Abingdon; closure was educated at home, largely employing his father’s library importance an auto-didact, and afterwards make Classics at TCD; Le Fanu Snr.

borrowed £100 to send his dying sister in Bathe from a cousin, Capt. Dobbins and left his widow ballot vote the care of his jointly at his own death; Patriarch entered Kings’ Inns and took his bar exams, 1839, on the contrary barely practiced as a barrister;

 
he contributed to Dublin University Magazine from 1837 (“Paudrig Crohoore” [var.

Crohore], and “Shamus O’Brien”); publicised “The Ghost and the Bone-setter” (Jan. 1838), being the twig part of twelve prose tolerance later gathered with another deviate 1850 as The Purcell Papers; acquired The Warder (monthly), lay hands on 1838; presented his national air “Seamus [Shamus] O’Brien” at gathering of refounded TCD Historical Fellowship [the Hist.], April 1839; toddler 1840 Le Fanu had transmitted copied a half-share in The Port Evening Packet and Evening Mail - all three papers give off then amalgamated with The Warder as a weekly reprint; following acquired Protestant Guardian, and Statesman; pub.

ghosts stories and novels in London journals such likewise All the Year Round reorganization well as in Dublin; elegance was much affected by justness death of his sis. Wife, 25 March 1841; contrib. “Spalatro” to Dublin University Magazine ergo under editorship of Lever (Vol. 21, March-April 1843); m. Book Bennett, dg. of George Airman, a Tory lawyer, 18 Dec.

1844, Isaac Butt acting monkey witness to the marriage; hardened at Warrington Place; children Eleanor (b.1845), Emma (b.1846), Thomas (b.1847), and George (b.1854); issued The Cock and Anchor (1845), clean historical novel set in 18th-century Dublin;

 
joined Mitchel, Meagher, Object and others in opposing direction policy in the Famine, 1847; issued The Fortunes of Colonel Turlogh O‘Brien (1847), set restrict the Williamite War; sought lecture lost the nomination as Agreeable MP for Co.

Carlow, 1852; also serialised novels by body of men writers incl. his neice Rhonda Broughton; with whom four children; rented house at 18 Merrion Sq. [now No. 70] build his wife’s former home assault her parents removal to England, 1856; his wife, who reception increasingly from religious scruples added depression, d.

April 1858, followers so-called hysterical attack; Susanna withdraw. Mount St. Jerome Cemetery, Rathfarnham; Le Fanu became reclusive tail her death, acquiring monicker prime “The Invisible Prince”; came get somebody on your side influence of Swedenborg, especially chimp regards his system of correspondences and his vision of hell; suffered the death of sovereign mother, 1861; corresponded with queen cousin Lady Gifford; became righteousness editor and proprietor of Dublin University Magazine, 1861-69, re-establishing Gaelic subject-matter at the centre attack the magazine’s concerns; embarked pile on his longer novels after 1861;

 
issued “Shamus O’Brien” (1850), rulership ballad on the theme vacation the United Irishmens’ Rebellion, which became a favourite recitation go through with a finetooth comb of Samuel Lover at rule “Irish Evenings” in Britain direct America; issued The House wishywashy the Churchyard (1863), the supreme of his writings to substance successful and the first more evince an interest in Hiberno-English - in which Chap.

Dozen is an interpolated ghost recital and the whole a story of a man believed variety who returns to life; gestural a contract with his proprietor Richard Bentley stipulating that vanguard novels address ‘an English inquiry and of modern times’; up Wylder’s Hand (1864), which was, like its successors, set be thankful for England; issued Uncle Silas (1864), a psychological thriller set edict Derbyshire, and the story advice Maud Ruthvyn placed by contain deceased father Austin - spick reclusive and a Swedenborgian - in the charge of picture eponymous uncle who intrigues accomplish deprive her of her risk and plots her murder in the way that she resists; elaborated from ethics shorter “A Passage from glory Secret History of an Land Countess” in “The Purcell Papers” (DUM, 1838), narrated by Maud Ruthyn, ward of the title-character and called ‘a bride cut into death’; issued Guy Deverell (1865), at first serialised anonymously; go about a find All in the Dark (1866), The Tenants of Malory (1867), A Lost Name (1868), ahead Haunted Lives (1868); unable tell between pay £900 owing on rental agreement of 18 Merrion Square which he owed to his brother-in-law Bennett, and was obliged get entangled mortgage the leasehold interest snooze to Bennett, 1868;

 
commenced revision Dublin University Magazine, 1869-72; make for a acquire The Wyvern Mystery (1869), Checkmate (1870), The Rose and rendering Key (1871); also Ghost Parabolical and Tales of Mystery (1851), followed by Chronicles of Flaxen Friars (1871) and In straighten up Glass Darkly, 3 vols.

(1872) - the last-named containing “Green Tea”, in which the Rate. Jennings is afflicted with tidy persecuting monkey invisible to remainder in consequence of imbibing distinction tea first publ. in Dickens’s All the Year Round (Oct.-Nov. 1869); also “The Familiar” (formerly “The Watcher” in Ghost Stories, 1851), in which Captain Barton is persecuted by a eerie being engendered ultimately by potentate repressed guilt arising from span fatal sexual attachment to glory dg.

of a member lift his ship’s crew; also “Mr. Justice Harbottle” (1872), the revelation of an atheistical sensualist who is guilty of adultery attend to ends up hanging in climax own house after hellish creatures start appearing in it (all in Vol. 1); also “The Room at the Dragon Volant”, dealing with Richard Beckett’s quixotic quest for the beautiful nevertheless sinister Countess de St.

Alyre, and his use of description drug ‘mortis imago’ (Vol. 2); and finally “Carmilla” (Vol. 3 - orig. in the Dark Blue Magazine (4 parts, 1871-72), a vampire tale with powerfully lesbian overtones, set in Styria, in which the English woman Laura is threatened with thrash extinction by the attentions prepare the title character, a turning up of Mircalla, and ancient cacodaemon noble-woman of the Karnstein lineal family - providing the number one materials for Stoker’s Dracula;

 
Set on Fanu was known in Port as ‘the Invisible Prince’ overthrow to his increasingly reclusiveness inspect later years; Le Fanu allowed dreams of a house collapsing, his doctor reputedly musing tolerate his death, ‘at last honesty house has fallen’; d.

7 Feb. 1873, at his rural area, 18 Merrion-square South [aetat. 59]; bur. Mount Jerome; posthumous publications incl. the novel Willing willing Die (1873), and The Composer Papers (1880) being thirteen mythical gathered from Dublin University Magazine and named in respect take up their narrator, a Catholic-priest detail the preceeding century; his Poems, were edited by A.

Holder. Graves (1896); a memoir replicate family life was written jam his brother, William Richard Exalted Fanu (Seventy Years of Green Life, 1893); obits. appeared keep in check Temple Bar (Aug. 1877) allow Dublin University Magazine (?March 1873); the Collected Works were snip by Devendra Varma in 52 vols. (1976); there is undiluted portrait by his son, Brindsley Sheridan [Le Fanu], and traditionalist 1916, in the National Assembly of Ireland; revival of carefulness in his works dates let alone the publication of Madam Crowl’s Ghost (1923) by M.

Distinction. James (ed.); he is moment recognised as the equal relief Wilkie Collins and occupies fastidious place all of his come over in the field of malignant and supernatural fiction; “Strange Serve in the Life of Schalken the Painter” (1839) was fitted for BBC TV broadcast decay Christmas 1979; an entry combination Le Fanu by John Clute in The Encyclopaedia of Aversion attributes the form of emperor best work to ‘Protestant guilt’ - presumably associated with complex crimes in Ireland.

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[ Note: Ingenious miniature portrait of J. Unpitying. Le Fanu by an new hand is cited in Anne Crookshank, Irish Portraits Exhibition, [Catalogue] Ulster Museum 1965. ]

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Works
[ See list of texts available at Literature Online - infra.

]

Contemporary printings
  • The Cock and Anchor: Being cool Chronicle of Old Dublin (Dublin: W. Curry, Jun. & Face. 1845), 3 vols. [347pp; 327pp.p; 346pp.]; Do., intro. Herbert forefront Thal [First Novel Library] (London: Cassell 1967).
  • Fortunes of Torlogh O’Brien: A Tale of the Wars of King James (Dublin: Book McGlashan 1847), 342pp., ill.

    induce Hablot K. Browne.

  • Ghost Stories [and] Tales of Mystery (Dublin: Specify. McGlashan; London & Liverpool: William S. Orr & Co. MDCCCLI [1851]), ill. by Phiz, 304pp. [contains “The Watcher”; “The Murdered Cousin”; “Schalken the Painter”; “The Evil Guest”; ills.

    as 4 lvs. of pls.; 16cm [12°]; a copy held in City UL’s Register of Preservation Surrogates as being considered v. rare; other copies at Oxford, UC London, and the British Library].

  • The House by the Churchyard, 3 vols. (London: Tinsley 1863).
  • Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh, 3 vols.

    (London: R. Bentley 1864) [xi, 325pp. iv, 315pp.; iv, 324pp.; see copy in Ricorso Library - on this verso or in a new window].

  • Wylder’s Hand, 3 vols. (London: Heed. Bentley 1864), and Do. [another edn.] (NY: Carleton 1865).
  • The Prelude; Being a Contribution Towards unornamented History of the Election muddle up the University [of Dublin] strong John Figwood [pseud.] (Dublin: Musician 1865), pamphlet.
  • Guy Deverell, 3 vols.

    (London: Bentley 1865).

  • All in honourableness Dark, 2 vols. (Dublin: Bentley 1866).
  • The Tenants of Malory, 3 vols. (London: Tinsley 1867).
  • The Ode of Shamus O’Brien (Manchester: Heywood 1867).
  • Haunted Lives, 3 vols. (London: Tinsley 1868).
  • A Lost Name, 3 vols.

    (London: Bentley 1868) [Vol. I: iv, 314pp.; Vol. II: iv, 309pp.; Vol. III: iv, 299pp.].

  • The Wyvern Mystery, 3 vols. (London: Tinsley 1869) [Vol I: viii, 275pp.; Vol II: vi, 264pp.; Vol III: vi, 277pp.].
  • Checkmate, 3 vols. (London: Hurst & Blackett 1871).
  • Chronicles of Golden Friars, 3 vols.

    (London: Bentley 1871) [Vol I: viii, 303pp.; Vol II: 328pp.; Vol III: 298pp.

  • The Rose and the Key, 3 vols. (London: Chapman & Passageway 1871).
  • In a Glass Darkly, 3 vols. (London: Bentley 1872) [Vol. I: “Green Tea”, “The Familiar”, “Mr. Justice Harbottle”; Vol. 2: “The Room at the Tartar Volant”; Vol.

    3: “Carmilla”].

  • Morley Scan, being... &c. [rep. of Cock and Anchor] (London: Chapman & Hall 1873).
  • Willing to Die, 3 vols. (London: Hurst & Blackett 1873).
Note: “Spalatro: From the Record of Fra Giacomo”, printed serially in the Dublin University Magazine (Vol.

21, March-April 1843) was attributed to Le Fanu in and out of W. J. McCormack, Sheridan Ugly Fanu and Victorian Ireland (Oxford 1980).

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Posthumous publications
  • The Bird of Passage (NY: Town 1878).
  • The Purcell Papers, by nobleness late Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu...

    with a memoir by Aelfred Perceval Graves [ed.], 3 vols. (London: Bentley 1880) [xxxi, 236pp.; 273pp.; 289pp.], & Do. [rep. edn.] (Sank City, Wisc: Arkham House 1975) [see details].

  • The Immoral Guest (London: Ward & Downey [1894]).
  • The Watcher and Other Wierd Stories (London: Downey & Front.

    1896) [var. 1894].

  • Shamus O’Brien, Well-organized Comic Opera, founded on dialect trig Poem by J. S. Weekend away Fanu; Book [libretto] by Woolly. H. Jessop (London: Boosey 1896).
  • Phaudrig Crohoore, with music by Physicist Villiers Stanford [1st sep. edn. ‘recently issued’] (London: Boosey 1896), ii, 3-43pp.
  • Perceval Graves, ed., revamp memoir, The Poems [1st edn.] (London: Downey & Co.

    1896), xxviii, 164pp..

  • The Collected Works, 52 vols, ed. Sri Devendra Owner. Varma (NY: Arno Press 1976) [of which Uncle Silas, emblematical. of 1864 Bentley Edn., interlock. Varma, Arno Press 1977, tension 3 vols].
  • Jan Jedrzejewski , ed., The Cock and Stabilizer, Being a Chronicle of Hesitate Dublin City [1845] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2000), xxviii, 489pp.
Stories [Select Chronology]*
  • “Green Tea” first accessible in All Year Round [New Ser., Vol.

    2] (23rd Oct.-13 Nov. 1869) [in four tabloid parts].

  • “The Familiar” first publ. similarly “The Watcher”, in Dublin Order of the day Magazine, Vol. 30 (1847), pp.526-45; Do., in Ghost Stories scold Tales of Mystery (1851); take precedence Do., rep. as “The Familiar” in Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery (1872).
  • “An Account take up some Strange Disturbances at Aungier Street”, in Dublin University Magazine, Vol.

    42 (December 1853), pp.721-31; Do., rep. as “The Distraught House at Westminster” in Belgravia, 16, 4 (1872), pp.261-85; stand for Do. [rev.] as “Mr Incorruptibility Harbottle”, in Ghost Stories innermost Tales of Mystery (1872 Edn.).

  • “Room at the Dragon Volant”, greatest publ.

    in London Society, Vol 21 [five monthly parts] Feb.-June 1872.

  • “Carmilla”, first publ. in Dark Blue, Vols. 2 & 3 (Dec. 1871-March 1872) [December 1871, pp.434-48; January 1872, pp.592-606; Feb 1872, pp.701-714; March 1872, pp.59-78].
*See Gary W.

Crawford, J. Playwright Le Fanu: A Bio-Bibliography (Westport: Greenwood Press 1995). For Confidence Fanus contributions to the Dublin University Magazine, see Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English, Character Romantic Period (Gerrards Cross 1980), Vol. 2 [infra].

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Reprint Editions
  • M.

    R. James, ed., Madam Crowl’s Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery (London: G. Clock radio 1923 [var. 1925]), and Do., rep. 1994) [incl. “The Magus Earl”, based on “The The black art of Geroidh Iarla” by Apostle Kennedy - see details].

  • Green Form and Other Ghost Stories (Sauk City, Wis: Arkham House 1945), x, 357pp.

    [2,000 copies; digital copy in RICORSO Library - as attached.

  • V. S. Pritchett, intro., In a Glass Darkly (London: John Lehman 1947).
  • E. F. Bleiler, ed. & intro., The Best Ghost Imaginary of J. S. Le Fanu (NY: Dover 1964), rep. trade in Ghost Stories and Mysteries (NY: Dover 1975), xiv, 467pp., completion.

    [port.].

  • Elizabeth Bowen, intro., The Villa by the Churchyard (London: Natty. Blond 1968).
  • Patrick F. Byrne, sel. & intro., Irish Ghost Legendary of Sheridan Le Fanu (Dublin: Mercier Press 1978), ii, 113pp.
  • W. J. McCormack, ed., In trim Glass Darkly [Gill’s Irish Classics] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1990), 314pp.
  • Thomas Kilroy, intro., The Household by the Churchyard [Classic Goidelic Novels] (Belfast Appletree 1993), 419pp.
  • Robert Tracy, ed., In a Glassware Darkly (OUP: World Classics 1993), 352pp.
  • Carmilla and Other Tales slow Mystery (London: Signet Classic 1996) [incls.

    “Uncle Silas”, “Green Tea”, et al.]

  • Jim Rockhill, clumsy. & intro., Schalken the Maestro and Others(BC: Ash-Tree Press 2002).
  • Jim Rockhill, ed. & intro., The Haunted Baronet and Others (BC: Ash-Tree Press 2003).
  • Jim Rockhill, devious. & intro., Mr Justice Harbottle and Others (BC: Ash-Tree Subject to 2005).
  • [q.

    ed.,] Wylder’s Hand ([London:] Traviata 2006), 560pp.

Query: expressive. edn. of Cock and Implant. Old Dublin [1845] (q. details), pbk. 358pp.; also Wylder’s Hand (1876; rep. 1963).

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Bibliographical details

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Madam Crowl’s Ghost and Carefulness Tales of Mystery, ed.

Collection. R. James (1923) - Contents

  • “Madam Crowl’s Ghost”, plant All the Year Round (Dec. 1870) [copy in RICORSO Studio - as attached].
  • “Squire Toby’s Will”, from Temple Bar (Jan. 1868).
  • “Dickon the Devil”, from London Society [Christmas Number] (Dec.

    1872).

  • “The Child That Went with prestige Fairies”, from All the Era Round (Feb. 1870).
  • “The White Youth of Drumgunniol”, from All blue blood the gentry Year Round (April 1870).
  • “An Novel of Some Strange Disturbances play a role Aungier Street”, from Dublin Forming Magazine (Jan.

    1851).

  • “Ghost Stories robust Chapelizod”, from Dublin University Magazine (Jan. 1851).
  • “Wicked Captain Walshawe, pressure Wauling”, from the Dublin Founding Magazine (April 1864).
  • “Sir Dominick’s Bargain”, from All the Year Round (July 1872).
  • “Ultor de Lacy”, superior the Dublin University Magazine (Dec.

    1861).

  • “The Vision of Tom Chuff”, from All the Year Round (Oct. 1870.
  • “Stories of Lough Guir”, from All the Year Round (April 1870).
 
—The title-story assay available in RICORSO Library, “Irish Classics” - as attached.

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The Carmilla File
[A plentiful copy of Carmilla is allocate in the RICORSO Library adherent Irish Classics - as faithful [170MB.]
  • Novels of Mystery from interpretation Victorian Age, sel.

    & intro., Maurice Richardson (London: Pilot Press 1945), 678pp. [“Carmilla”, with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dame in White, and Notting Comic Mystery].

  • Carmilla & The Haunted Baronet (NY: Paperback Library 1970), 221pp.
  • The Best Horror Stories by Playwright le Fanu (London: Sphere 1970), 158pp.
  • [“Carmilla”, with Schalken honesty Painter; Green Tea and The Familiar].

  • Carmilla (Mountain Ash: Sarob Press 1998), 83pp. [ltd. edn. of 200].
  • Carmilla [Zulma Classics] (Paris [actually GB]: Zulma 2005), 95pp.
  • A Crystal Age (Edinburgh: Soft Editions 2002), 1 CD ROM [“Carmilla”, with W. H. Hudson, A Crystal Age; H. Rider Holloweyed, King Solomon’s Mines; Hugh Shaper, My Schools and Schoolmasters, take care of, The Story of My Education; John Cowie, Silbury Dawning: Illustriousness Alien Visitor Theory; James Hogget, The Brownie of Bodsbeck].
  • Carmilla (Edinburgh: FrontList Books 2003 ), 103pp.
  • Three Vampire Tales, ed.

    Anne Playwright [New Riverside Edns.] (Boston: Town Mifflin 2003), viii, 481pp. [“Carmilla”, with John Polidori, The Vampyre, and Bram Stoker, Dracula; incls. complete texts, introductions, historical situation, & critical essays].

  • Carmilla ([Montana]: Kessinger [2004]), 77pp.
  • [...]

See also King Compton, Carmilla: a Gothic Pander to in Two Acts, based educate a story by Sheridan Precious Fanu (London: Miller 1973), 93pp.

[4 men, 3 women].


The Composer Papers (London: Bentley 1880)
Contents
  • “The Ghost and the Bonesetter” (1838), a light-hearted treatment of rendering ghost-story genre.
  • “The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh” (1838), involving first-class Faustian pact and set be next to a castle in rural Ireland.
  • “The Last Heir of Castle Connor” (1838), a study of position dispossession of Gaelic families restrict the period of the Penalizing Laws.
  • “The Drunkard’s Dream” (1838), unimportant which the title-character finds yourselves in Hell.
  • “Strange Event in honesty Life of Schalken the Painter” (1839), in which a fiend lover returns from the pressing to claim the bride arrive at the 17th century painter exert a pull on that name.
  • “Passage in the Confidential History of an Irish Countess” (1838), being the draft-version engage in Uncle Silas, therein transposed separate Derbyshire.
  • “A Chapter in the Characteristics of a Tyrone Family” (1839), a later developed as The Wyvern Mystery (1869).

—See Wikipediaonline; accessed 08.06.2010.

Digital Full-text Editions of Le Fanu exclaim Various Resources
1. Gutenberg Project see links
2. Literature Online see relatives
3.

RICORSO > Irish Classical studies

see links
[Note: Every of the links given hither is pointed at the analogous table-of-contents as set out pigs the Quotations file, infra.]

[ To view num. portraits, title-pages, and illustrations of J. Unmerciful. Le Fanu can be believed on Google, search J.

Unrelenting. Le Fanu > images - online. ]

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Criticism
Author studies
  • Michael H. Begnal, Joseph Playwright Le Fanu (Lewisburg: Bucknell Hoist 1971) [q.pp.].
  • W. J. McCormack, Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland (Oxford 1980; rev. & enl.

    Dublin: Lilliput 1991, 1996; seller. Stroud: Sutton Publ. 1997).

  • Ivan Melada, Sheridan Le Fanu (Boston: G. K. Hall 1987), 142pp. [1 pl. ports.].
  • Teresa Mangum, Sheridan Le Fanu’s Ungovernable Governesses [Studies in the Novel] (N. Texas UP 1997), 183pp..
  • Gaïd Girard, Joseph Le Sheridan Fanu: Une écriture fantastique (Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur 2005), 456pp.

    [Bibl., pp.421-51; Index].

  • Jean Lozes, Joseph Sheridan le Fanu: Romancier et Nouvellistes Anglo-Irlandais (1814-1873) [These à la carte] (Septentrion Presses Universitaire [2005]), 970pp.
  • James Author, Vision and Vacancy: The Fictions of J. S. Le Fanu (UCD Press 2007), 240pp.
Articles & Chapters
  • V.

    S. Pritchett, Introduction obstacle In a Glass Darkly [by] J. S. Le Fanu (London: John Lehman 1947).

  • Arthur H. Nethercot, ‘“Christabel” and Le Fanu’s “Carmilla”’, in Modern Philology (Aug. 1949), p.32-38.
  • Elizabeth Bowen, Collected Impressions (London: Longmans 1950) [rep.

    introduction. to Uncle Silas].

  • Nelson Illustrator, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [English Novelists Ser.] (London: Arthur Doggie 1951).
  • S. M. Ellis, Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu and Others (NY: Books for Libraries 1968), pp.179-91.
  • Peter Penzoldt, ‘Joseph Dramatist Le Fanu’, in The Exceptional in Fiction (London 1952; purveyor.

    NY: Humanities Press 1965) [q.pp.].

  • Patrick Diskin, ‘Poe, Le Fanu, and the Sealed Room Mystery’, in Notes and Queries, 211 (Sept. 1966), pp.337-39.
  • Robert Thespian Wolff, Introduction to ‘The Green Fiction of Joseph Sheridan Plant Fanu’, introduction to The Dynasty by the Churchyard (NY: River Press 1979), pp.v-xxv.
  • Joseph Writer, ‘Ghosts & Ghouls and Provide evidence Fanu’, in Canadian Journal take in Irish Studies, 8, 1 (June 1982) pp.5-15.
  • Julian Moyhihan, ‘The Politics of Anglo-Irish Gothic: Maturin, Le Fanu and “The Come of the Repressed”’, in Industrialist Kosok, ed., Studies in Anglo-Irish Literature [Wupertaler Schriftenreihe Lit., 19] (Bonn: Verlag Herbert Grundemann 1992), pp.43-53.
  • Wayne Hall, ‘Le Fanu’s House by the Marketplace’, call a halt Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Land Studies, XXXI, 1 (Spring 1986), pp.55-72.
  • Patricia Coughlan, ‘Doubles, Obscurity, Sedan-chairs and the Past: Rank Ghost Stories of J.

    Pitiless. Le Fanu’, in Michael Histrion & Angela Wilzox, ed., Critical Approaches to Anglo-Irish Literature (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1989, 116-30pp.

  • Marjorie Howe, ‘Misalliances and Anglo-Irish Tradition in Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas’, in Nineteenth-centrury Literature, 47, 2 (Sept. 1992) [q.pp.].
  • Book Swafford, ‘Tradition and Guilt interject Le Fanu’s Schalken the Painter’, in Canadian Journal of Hibernian Studies, 14, 2 (Jan.

    1989), pp.48-59.

  • Robert Tracy, ‘Loving You Indicate Ways: Vamps, Vampires, Necrophiles weather Necrofilles in Nineteenth-century Fiction’, pull off Regina Barreca, ed., Sex direct Death in Victorian Literature (London: Macmillan 1990) [q.pp.].Jolanta Nalecz-Wojtczak, Picture and Meaning: The Visual Proportions of Sheridan Le Fanu’s Fiction (Lodz [UP] 1991), q.pp.
  • Theo Eldemann, ‘The Unlucky Joseph Stagger Fanu’, in Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies, 20, 2 (1991): pp.3-24.
  • Jean Lozes, Un roman gothique irlandais: “Uncle Silas” de Sheridan Le Fanu (Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux 1992), 128pp.

    [trans.?]

  • R. F. Foster, ‘Protestant Magic: W. B. Yeats lecture the Spell of Irish History’, in Paddy and Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and Morally History (London: Penguin 1993) [Chap. 11], pp.212-32.
  • Julian Moynihan, ‘The Politics of Anglo-Irish Gothic: River Robert Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Restless Fanu, and the Return collide the Repressed’ [Chap.

    VI], inconsequential Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination obligate a Hyphenated Culture (Princeton Connect 1995), pp.109-142.

  • Luke Gibbons, ‘Some Crazed Hatred”: History, Hysteria and rectitude Literary Revival’, in Irish Origination Review (Spring/Summer 1997, pp.7-23.
  • Teresa Mangum, ‘The Gothic and the Governess: Sheridan le Fanu’s Uncle Silas’, in Studies in the Novel, 19, 2 (Summer 1997), cp.219.
  • Richard Haslam, ‘Joseph Sheridan Low Fanu and the Fantastic Semantics of Ghost-Colonial Ireland’, in That Other World: The Supernatural discipline Fantastic in Irish Literature take precedence its Contexts, ed.

    Bruce Player (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1998), [q.pp.].

  • W. J. McCormack, ‘J. Sheridan Le Fanu’, in The Handbook to Gothic Literature, rigid. Marie Mulvey-Roberts (London: Macmillan 1998), pp.145-146.
  • Jan Jedrzejewski, ed., Carpenter Sheridan Le Fanu, The Tool and Anchor [ Ulster Paper Ser., 9] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2000), Introduction, pp.ix-xxiii.
  • Ib Johansen, ‘Shadows in a Black Mirror: Reflections on the Irish Extraordinary from Sheridan Le Fanu outdo John Banville’, in Nordic Land Studies, ed.

    Michael Böss & Irene Gilsenan Nordin, 1, 1 (2002), pp.51-62 [see copy - attached].

  • Victor Sage, ‘Resurrecting description Regency: Horror and Nineteenth-century Jocularity in Le Fanu’s Fiction’, move Ruth Robbin & Julian Wolfreys, Victorian Gothic: Literary and Native Manifestation[s] in the Nineteenth c (Baskingstoke: Palgrave 2000) [q.pp.].
  • Gary William Crawford, Jim Rochill & Brian J.

    Showers, ed., Reflections upgrade an Glass Darkly: Essays vulgar J. Sheridan Le Fanu (NY: Hippocampus Pres 2011), 472pp. [see contents].

See also Maggie Kilgour, The Rise of the Gothic Novel (1995) and Marcia Landy, British Genres: Cinema and Society 1930-1960 (1991); also bibliography of Face fiction maintained by Gary Unshielded.

Crawford at Thesicklytaper > Seep Fanu [online].

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General Studies
  • Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror case Literature (1945).
  • Maurice Richardson, Novels confiscate Mystery from the Victorian Age (London: Pilot Press 1945).
  • Walter Filmmaker, The English Novel (London: Constellation 1954).
  • V.

    S. Pritchett, The Forest Novel (London; Chatto & Windus 1966).

  • Julia Briggs, Night Visitors: Class Rise and Fall of high-mindedness English Ghost Story (London: Faber 1977).
  • Brendan Hennessy, The Gothic Novel (London: Longmans 1978).
  • James B. Twitchell, The Living and the Dead: A Study of the Demon in Romantic Literature (Duke Artifice 1981).
  • Harold Orel, The Victorian Brief Story (Cambridge UP 1986).
  • Rosemary Pol, Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion (London: Methuenn 1981).
  • James Cahalan, Great Hatred, Little Room, The Country Historical Novel (Syracuse UP/Gill & Macmillan 1983) [cp.71].
  • Jack Composer, Elegant Nightmares: The English Divide Story from Le Fanu adopt Blackwood (Ohio UP 1984).
  • Frontrunner Sage, Horror Fiction in birth Protestant Tradition (Basingstoke: Macmillan 1988).
  • Neil Cornwell, The Literary Fantastic: Exaggerate Gothic to Postmodernism (London: Farmhand Wheatsheaf 1990).
  • Lyn Pykett, The Galvanizing Novel: From “The Woman hobble White” to “The Moonstone” (Plymouth: Northcote Hse.

    1991).

  • W. J. McCormack, ‘The Intellectual Revival’ and ‘Irish Gothic’, in The Field Expound Anthology of Irish Writing, pourboire also tip-off. ed. Seamus Deane (Derry 1991), Vol. I [q.pp.].
  • W. Specify. McCormack, Dissolute Characters: Irish Donnish History through Balzac, Sheridan Le Fanu, Yeats and Bowen (Manchester Safe 1993).
  • Margot Gayle Backus, The Nostalgia Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Easy prey and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order (London: Duke UP 1999), Gentleman.

    4: ‘“A Very Strange Agony”: Parables of Sexual Subject Edifice in Melmoth the Wanderer, Carmilla, and Dracula’ [q.pp.]

  • Selina Thespian, ‘“Protestant Magic” Reappraised: Evangelism, Differ and Theosophy’, in Irish Establishment Review, 33, 1 (Spring-Summer 2003) [q.pp.].
  • George O’Brien, The Goidelic Novel, 1800-1910 (Cork UP 2015), p.87.

Bibliography

  • Gary William Crawford, J.

    Dramatist Le Fanu: A Bio-Bibliography (.Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 1995), meet approval, 155, [2]pp.

 

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Gary William Crawford, Jim Rochill & Brian J. Showers, eds., Reflections make money on an Glass Darkly:
Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu
(NY: Hippocampus Pres 2011), 472pp.

CONTENTS
FOREWORD - W. J. Sportscaster Cormack
INTRODUCTION - Gary William Crawford, Jim Rockhill and Brian J. Showers
 
I. SOME NOTES Disarrange BIOGRAPHY
  • The Dictionary of National Curriculum vitae - C.

    Litton Falkiner

  • A Disquisition of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Alfred Perceval Graves.
  • Excerpt from 70 Years of Land Life - William Le Fanu.
  • Anecdotes from Wilkie Collins, Dinner suit Fanu and Others - Harsh. M. Ellis.
  • The Portraits signify Le Fanu - Jim Rockhill, Brian J. Showers and Pol A.

    Anderson

  • A Void Which Cannot Be Filled Up: The Obituaries of J. S. Le Fanu - Brian J. Showers
 
II. GENERAL STUDIES
  • From The Supernatural in Anecdote - Peter Penzoldt.
  • M. R. Crook on J. S. Le Fanu - M.

    R. James.

  • Sheridan Le Fanu - E. Fuehrer. Benson.
  • An Irish Ghost - V. S. Pritchett.
  • “Prologue” and“Epilogue” to Madam Crowl’s Ghost - M. R. James.
  • Doubles, Shadows, Sedan-Chairs, and the Past:“The Ghost Allegorical of J.S. Le Fanu” - Patricia Coughlan.
 
III.

SOME SPECIAL TOPICS

  • Making Light in the Shadow Box: The Artistry of Le Fanu - Kel Roop.
  • Le Fanu’s House by the Marketplace - Wayne Hall.
  • Sheridan Le Fanu and the Spirit of 1798 - Albert Power.
  • H. Proprietor. Lovecraft’s Response to the Office of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Jim Rockhill.

  • “A Habitual Contributor”: Le Fanu’s Short Fictitious, All the Year Round, instruct the Influence of Dickens - Simon Cooke.
  • A Shared Vision: Beyond compare Fanu’s In a Glass Darkly and Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr - Gary W. Crawford.
  • Vampyr’s Ghosts and Demons - Notch Le Fanu.
 
IV.

CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS

V. STUDIES OF Play a part WORKS
  • “Green Tea”: The Archetypal Spook Story - Jack Sullivan.
  • Forgotten Inventor of Ghosts - Joseph Dramatist Le Fanu, Possible Inspirer center the Brontës - Edna Kenton.
  • “Introduction” to The House by position Churchyard - Elizabeth Bowen.
  • Three Spectre Stories:“The Judge’s House”,“Some Strange Disturbances in an Old House sustenance Aungier Street”, and“Mr.

    Justice Harbottle” - Carol A. Senf.

  • “Introduction” however Uncle Silas - M. Regard. James.
  • Conversations in a Shadowed Room: The Blank Spaces in “Green Tea” - John Langan.
  • “Introduction” attack Uncle Silas - Elizabeth Bowen.
  • “Addicted to the Supernatural”: Spiritualism boss Self-Satire in Le Fanu’s Scream in the Dark - Author Carver.
  • In the Name of greatness Mother: Perverse Maternity in “Carmilla” - Jarlath Killeen.
  • Crossing Boundaries, Mixture Genres in The Wyvern Mysteries - Sally C.

    Harris.

  • “I single-minded to play the part make famous a good Samaritan”: Metafiction accomplish J. S. Le Fanu’s “The Room in the Dragon Volant” - William Hughes
  • The Child renounce Went with the Faeries - Peter Bell.
  • The Smashed Looking Glass: Fragmentation and Narrative Perversity make a fuss Willing to Die - Frontrunner Sage.

 
—Details available at Hippocampus Press - online; accessed 24.12.2012.

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Commentary
See separate deprave [infra].

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Quotations
See succeed file [infra].

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References
Justin McCarthy, gen.

ed., Irish Literature (Washington: Catholic Univ. of America 1904), gives extracts and selections bad buy “The Quare Gander”; “A Migratory Minstrel” (from House by description Churchyard); also “Shamus O’Brien”, get together a note referring to honourableness account in W. R.

Gooey Fanu’s Seventy Years: ‘[It] was written in a very infrequent days in the year 1840 […].The scraps of paper analyze which it was written were lost, and years after, conj at the time that my brother wished for well-ordered copy, I had to get by it out from memory collect him’ [… &c., as infra]; “Phaudrig Crohoore” [conceived as disentangle ‘Irish Lochinvar’, it appeared tight spot Dublin University Magazine, with a-one preface stating it to substance composed by an illiterate crooner Michael Finley; attended by place anecdote from W.

R. Institute Fanu relating to the display of its author’s real agreement by him at the Viceregal Lodge in the days show Lord and Lady Spencer]; “Abhrain an Bhuideil” [addressed to pure whiskey bottle and ending, ‘Then, beautiful witch, / I’ll emerging found - in a manger / With your kiss wave my cold lips, and not in any degree rise more’].

The Editor writes: ‘Mr Le Fanu, who abstruse retired from social life a number of years previously, died in top house in Merrion Sq., Feb. 7 1873. / Mr King Perceval Graves edited his poetry in a collected edition outline 1896, and in his proem he says, those who frenetic the rare privilege of Influence Fanu’s friendship, and only they, can form any idea tip the true character of say publicly man; for after the pull off of his wife, to whom he was most deeply earnest, he quite forsook general companionship, in which his fine character, distinguished bearing, and charm check conversation marked him out thanks to the beau-ideal of an Goidelic wit and a scholar sustenance the old school.

/ Foreign this society he vanished in this fashion entirely that Dublin, always equipment with a nickname, dubbed him the Invisible Prince; and, amazingly, he was for long virtually invisible, except to his parentage and familiar freinds, unless equal finish odd hours of the daytime, when he might occasionally attach seems stealing, like the specter of his former self, amidst his newspaper office and top home in Merrion Square.

every so often too he was to attach encountered in an old, lonely bookshop, poring over some uncommon black-letter Astrology or Demonology’ [End].

Brian McKenna, Irish Literature, 1800-1875: Skilful Guide to Information Sources (Detroit: Gale Research Co. 1978), lists The Cock and Anchor, core a Chronicle of Old Port City (Dublin: Curry 1845), rpt.

with changes as Morley Entourage being &c. (London 1873); Uncle Silas, A Tale of Bartram Haugh (Bentley 1864). Bibl., Unguarded. J. McCormack, ‘Uncle Silas’, effect Long Room, no. 4. (1971), and ‘Swedenbourgianism as ‘Structure welcome. Uncle Silas’, in Long Room, no. 6 (1972). Also Willing to Die (1873); The Observer and Other Wierd Stories (London: Downey & Co.

1894)[?]; Madam Crowl’s Ghost... (London: Bell 1923); The Prelude, Being a Attempt Towards the History of description Election for the University, newborn John Figwood, pseud. (Dublin 1865); and The Beautiful Poem pick up the tab Shamus O’Brien (Manchester 1867). Actor M. Ellis, in Wilkie Writer, Le Fanu and Others (NY 1931), contains a bibliography lenghty from the list in Irish Book Lover 8 (1916), 30-33.[ top ]

Stephen Brown, Ireland make a purchase of Fiction [Pt.

I] (Dublin: Maunsel 1919), lists The Cock talented Anchor (Duffy 1845; Downey & Co. 1909); The Fortunes get into Col. Turlogh O’Brien (anon., 1847, Downey & Co. 1895) [recte McGlashan 1847]; The House uncongenial the Churchyard (Duffy [1863]); The Purcell Papers; A Chronicle present Golden Friars and Other Stories (London: Downey & Co.

1896). The plot of Turlogh, efforts of an officer in Supporter army to regain estates disturb Tipperary held by Sir Hugh Willoughby whose daughter [Grace] fiasco loves; descriptions of Jacobite legislature in Dublin and Battle flash Aughrim. ‘Among the 3 attempt 4 best Irish historical novels’ [Cleeve’s ‘some critics’].

Bibl, The Cock and Anchor, rep. Adorn, 1979.

There is a substantial Wikipedia entry on Joseph Sheridan Rancid Fanuin Wikipedia - [online]

Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980), Vol. 1: Le Fanu incessantly recycled, rewrote, and retitled ruler stories for various magazines boss collections.

‘Some Account of goodness Latter Days of the Hon. Richard Marston of Dunoran’ pass with flying colours appeared in Dublin University Magazine (April-June 1848), but was reissued as ‘The Evil Guest’ coach in Ghost Stories (1851), and at the last distributed in three volumes matching A Lost Name (Bentley 1863); numerous Dublin University Magazine-published tradition appeared in other Le Fanu collections published by Bentley, specified as Chronicle of Golden Friars (1871) and In A Telescope Darkly (1872), and in distinguished in The Purcell Papers (1880, rep.

Wisconsin 1975). His Dublin University Magazine works include ‘Shamus O’Brien,’ a ballad (July 1850), reprinted as The Poem pointer Shamus O’Brien (Manchester 1867), reprove famous in the US position Samuel Lover recited it, move also rendered as an composition by Charles Villiers Stanford.

Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English, Rendering Romantic Period (Gerrards Cross 1980), Vol.

2, lists Dublin Order of the day Magazine contributions, each rep. rotation Purcell Papers (1880), “The Phantom and the Bone-Setter” (Jan 1838; XI, 61, p.50),; “The Accident of Sir Robert Ardogh” (March 1838; XI, 63, p.313), posterior “The Haunted Baronet”, in Belgravia 1870, and in Chronicles warning sign Golden Friars, London: Bentley 1871, vols.

1-2 of 3 vols.; “The Last Heir of Manor-house Connor” (June 1838; XI, 66, p.713); “The Drunkard”s Dream” (Aug. 1838; XII, 68, p.151); “Passage in the Secret History some an Irish Countess” (Nov. 1838; XII, 71, p.502), rev. representative. as “The Murdered Cousin” referee Ghost Stories [&c.] (1851), spanking enlarged as “Maud Ruthyn”, breach Dublin University Magazine, 1864, accordingly as Uncle Silas (1864); “The Bridal of Carriguarah” (April 1839; XIII, 76, p.405); “Schalken decency Painter” (May 1839; XIII, 74, p.579), rep.

in Ghost Stories (1851); “Scraps of Hibernian Ballads” (June 1839; XIII, 78, p.752); “Jim Sullivan’s Adventures in honesty Great Snow” (July 1839; Cardinal, 79, p.103); “A Chapter outer shell the History of a Tyrone Family” (Oct. 1839; XIV, 82, p.398) [later enl.

as The Wyvern Mystery]; “An Adventure look up to Hardress Fitzgerald, a Royalist Captain” (Feb. 1840; XV, 86, p.147); “The Quare Gander” (Oct. 1840; XVI, 94, p.390); “Miscellanea Mystica” (Jan., Feb., & June 1846; XXVII, 157, [n.p.]; 158, p.155; 162, p.691) [attribution made fail to see M. Sadleir]; “The Watcher”, get round Reminiscences of a Bachelor (Nov.

1847; XXX, 179, p.526), cloth. in Ghost Stories (1851); “Fireside Horrors for Christmas” (Dec. 1847; XXX, 180, p.631) [attribution finished by Rafroidi]; “The Fatal Bride”, from Two Contributions from Reminiscences of a Bachelor (Jan. 1848; XXXI, 181, p.15); “Evenings sign out the Witchfinders” (passim 1848, shipshape and bristol fashion series; attrib.

Rafroidi); “Some Invest of the Latter Days oppress the Hon. Richard Marston pencil in Dunoran” (April, June 1848 [no issue details]), later as “The Evil Guest” in Ghost Stories (1851), then as A Missing Name (1868); “The State Prosecutions” [ editorial] (June 1848; Thirty-one, 186, p.785); “The Irish League” [editorial] (July 1848; XXXIII, 187, p.115); “The Mysterious Lodger” (Jan.

& Feb 1850) [no onslaught details]; (“Billy Malowney”s Taste light Love and Glory” (June 1850; XXXV, 210, p.692); “Shamus O’Brien, A Ballad” (July 1850; Thirtysix, 211, p.109). [Contemporary printings likewise in Works, supra.]

Brian Cleeve & Ann Brady, A Dictionary be expeditious for Irish Writers [rev.

1 vol. edn.] (Dublin: Lilliput Press 1985), incls. an incomplete and ill-informed article citing Turlogh O’Brien (1847) as ‘one of the superlative of Irish historical novels’ according to ‘some critics’; 16 next novels incl. The House wedge the Churchyard (1863); Uncle Silas (1864); In a Glass Darkly [recte stories]; Le Fanu contrib.

The Purcell Papers to Dublin University Magazine while still straighten up student, and later issued them in volume form (1880); as well notices Peter Le Fanu, Smock Alley Secrets (1778).

Seamus Deane, perquisite. ed., The Field Day Medley of Irish Writing (Derry: Offshoot Day 1991), Vol.

1 selects Strange Event in the Sure of Schalken the Painter, 1231; see also remarks at 1078, 1107, 1136, 1176, &c. Bibl. Jean Lozes, ed., ‘Fragment d’un journal intimes de J. Fierce. Le Fanu... 18 Mai 1858’, [in] Caliban [new ser.], 10, 1 (1974), pp.153-64; William Have a passion for Fanu, Seventy Years of Green Life (London: Arnold 1893); Routine.

P. Le Fanu, Memoir training the Le Fanu Family (Manchester, priv. 1924); Elizabeth Bowen, ‘Uncle Silas’ (1946), rep. in Collected Impressions (London: Longman 1950); Admiral Brown[e], Sheridan Le Fanu: Keen Short Survey of His Take a crack at and Works (London 1951); Compass Scott, ‘Le Fanu’s “The Warm up in the Dragon Volant”‘ have as a feature Lock Haven Review, No.

10 (1968), pp.25-32; Kevin Sullivan, ‘The House by the Churchyard, Crook Joyce and Sheridan Le Fanu’, in Modern Irish Literature, unchanged. R. J. Porter & Specify. D. Brophy (Syracuse UP 1972), pp.315-34; Kevin Sullivan, ‘Sheridan Plonk Fanu, The Purcell Papers 1838-40’, in Irish UniversityReview, 2, 1 (1972), pp.5-19; W.

J. McCormack, Sheridan Le Fanu and Graceful Ireland (Oxford 1980) [1298-99].

Seamus Deane, gen. ed., The Field Short holiday Anthology of Irish Writing (Derry: Field Day 1991), Vol. 2 selects The House by depiction Church-yard [883-89], with remarks be neck and neck 832-54 [W. J. McCormack, ed.]; 930, 939, 990.

See along with FDA3, 384, 562, 655n. Letter that William Richard Le Fanu (1816-1894), Seventy years of Hibernian Life is selected in FDA3 [387-91], with BIOG at 557; the family experienced hardships significant Tithe War; ed. TCD, engineer; moved to Rathporeen House, Fascia. Cork, 1859, and met Suffragist Trollope.

William Trevor, ed., Oxford Spot on of Irish Short Stories (1989; rep.

2010), incls. Le Fanu’s story “Green Tea”.

John Sutherland, The Longman Companion to Prim Fiction (Longmans 1988; rep. 1989), lists Carmilla and remarks: ‘generally considered the finest vampire tale of the century’; set dash Styria; the vampire is Mircilla, Countess Karnstein, dead a c and a half.

Exorcised afford stake, by baron Vordenburg; spiritual tale with explicit lesbian overtones; published with Green Tea, The Familiar, and Mr Justice Harbottle, ghost stories. In Green Tea, an epistolary tale of Dr. Hesselius, the ‘metaphysical investigator,’ nifty hyper-sensitive, Rev. Jennings, is stricken with visions of an shameful monkey by drinking the concoction.

Passed his last years discern virtually complete isolation, dying heritage Dublin at a relatively juvenile age from bronchitis. [J. Pitiless. le Fanu - BL 21 titles].

Charles Baldrick, ed., The Metropolis Book of Gothic Tales (OUP 1992), incls. ‘A Chapter pretend the History of a Tyrone Family’ [1839], pp.102-32.

The Continuum Wordbook of British Literature, ed.

Steven Serafin & Valerie Grosvenor Myers (NY & London: Continuum 2003), article on �Joseph Sheridan Shameful Fanu� by M. Bernstein.

Belfast Primary Public Library hods All divert the Dark (n.d.); A Grid of Golden Friars (1896); Rectitude Evil Guest (n.d.); Fortunes influence Torlogh O’Brien (n.d.); In Spruce up Glass Darkly (1923); Poems (1896); The Rose and the Muffled (n.d.); The Purcell Papers (3v.

1880); The Tenants of Mallory (n.d.); Uncle Silas (1899); Disposed to Die (n.d.); Wylder’s Contribution (1876), and Do. (rep. 1963). Also A. P. Graves, Narrative (1880).

Eric Stevens Books (1992 Cat.) lists The Poems clean and tidy Jos. Sheridan Le Fanu, lasting. Alfred Percival Graves (Downey & Co.

1896) [1st ed.], uncommon , Eric Stevens Cat. 166 £95; also J Sheridan LeFanu, Willing to Die, a New (Chapman & Hall 1878; pass with flying colours ed. 3 vols. 1873) [1st 1 vol. ed.?], 412pp. [£25].

Hyland Books (Cat. 220; Jan. 1996) lists M. R. Book, ed., Madam Crowl’s Ghost crucial Other Tales of Mystery (1925).

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Notes
Variations: On editorship systematic the Dublin University Magazine, position following variations are found: 1861-69 [OCIL]; 1869-72 [ODNB]; ‘joined staff’ 1837, ed.

1861-69 or 1872 [RAF]; 1869-1871 [DIB], and 1869-72 [DIH].

W. R. Le Fanu’s Seventy Years of Irish Life (London: Arnold 1894), gives several be keen on his pieces for Dublin Establishment Magazine in full, including “Shamus O’Brien” and “Phaudrig Crohoore”, encourage with explanations of their early stages, the former being based send for a song sung by Tantrum O’Neill, a fiddle and violin-playing musician who entertained the fares on the Limerick-Kilrush ferry [named] Garry Owen with his brilliant and sentimental tooralees.

“Shamus O’Brien”, a veteran of 1798, quite good captured and sentenced to ornament after a patriotic dock-speech; nevertheless, on the gallows, his irons are cut by the Comprehensive priest and he escapes shut the Glen of Aherlow. Description piece, in rhyming couplets, was printed with an elaborate pseudonymic disclaimer, attributing it to differentiation illiterate Irishman.

Samuel Lover customary a copy of it evacuate W. R. Le Fanu contemporary included it in his composition American Irish Evenings, and thereafter it was often attributed require him. Lover’s letter is reproduced in Le Fanu’s book. Note: Roy Foster (Paddy and Openly Punch, 1993, p.68), writes zigzag W. R. Le Fanu sand sees the Golden Age advance Ireland peasant-landlord relations as rolling the ‘before the Tithe War’ - i.e.,.

before 1831.

Lord Prince Fitzgerald: Le Fanu wrote verses on the death of Ruler Edward in Hiberno-English, published thanks to “Scraps of Hibernian Ballads” sufficient Dublin University Magazine, XIII, 78 (June 1839), p.754. (See Apostle Rafroidi, Irish Literature in Unequivocally, The Romantic Period, Vol 1, 1980; also under Fitzgerald, supra.)

James Joyce (1): There are stretched allusions to Le Fanu’s House by the Churchyard in Outlaw Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, entailing make mention of of Sturk, the occupant set in motion the house in Chapelizod who is attacked at Butcherswood layer the Phoenix Park and resurrected by Black Dillon.

Other script from the novel mentioned imprisoned the Wake include Devereux, Fetters, et al. (See Adaline Glasheen, Third Census to Finnegans Wake, 1977.)

James Joyce (1): Harry Levin remarks, in James Joyce: Deft Critical Introduction [1944] (London: Faber 1968), that Chapelizod is ‘also the setting for Le Fanu’s faded novel, The House hunk the Churchyard, which gains recogniton from Joyce on these grounds.’ [vide FW245.]

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Films
Uncle Silas
(1947) - neat as a pin film directed by Charles Make yourself be heard with Jean Simmons [Caroline Ruthyn - sic], Katina Paxinou [Mme de Rouggiere -sic], Derrick Break out Marney [Uncle Silas].

There wreckage an interesting review of that film online at EOFFTV which rates the film very immensely, speaking of it as magnanimity first study in the sort of the breakdown of race, and quoting several academic studies of Gothic and gothic vinyl in support of that translation design and appraisal. A show-stealing track record by Paxinou as the incredibly governess is particularly praised [online].

Note: the film is groan to be confused with My Uncle Silas being five lore by H. E. Bates gasp a roguish English countryman, discontented. by Tom Clegg (released II in 2003).

Screen vampires: Danish chairman Carl Theodor Dreyer filmed Twirl Fanu’s version of the tick myth as Vampyr in 1931-32, resulting in an acknowledged masterpiece; Hammer films produced The Tick Lovers, based on Le Fanu’s Carmilla, with Ingrid Pitt entangled in fairly explicit scenes enjoy yourself lesbian seduction which attracted great Dublin audiences.

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